Politics/Current Affairs

This book examines the history of Labour's civil wars and the underlying causes of the party's schisms, from the first split of 1931, engineered by Ramsay MacDonald, to the ongoing battle for the future between the incumbent, Keir Starmer, and those who fundamentally altered the party's course under his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

Leadership of the United Kingdom is being debated as never before. This book is a clear-sighted and insightful contribution to that debate.

An urgent exploration of the challenges facing democracy today

Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today. Representing the 2000s, Natasha Walter's highly acclaimed, controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture

How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin?

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives Matter

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town

Essential reading for students of African-American history

An investigation into what makes the consistency of political groupings

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle
Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, ...

The environment is collapsing at a rapid rate, and in increasingly unpredictable ways. How should the left respond? Building on the debates surrounding the Green New Deal, Lawrence and Laybourn-Langton argue that it is not enough merely to spend our way out of the crisis. Instead we need to rapidly change ...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it

An impassioned exploration of the ways in which social media has manipulated us all

For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. This title tells the story of these historic months, from the mass marches that greeted the disputed election results to their brutal suppression by the hated Basij militia - and a dark aftermath of imprisonment.

The Times bestseller

FT Book of the Year

On 3 April 2020, Kate Bingham was told that the likelihood of any Covid-19 vaccine working was 15% at best. But on 8 December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now nearly every adult in Britain has had a jab, lockdowns have ended and we can finally ...

Leadership of the United Kingdom is being debated as never before. This book is a clear-sighted and insightful contribution to that debate.

Democracy has always been challenged, but this time it's more serious. The meaning of democracy is to take part.

By telling the story of the arguments and divisions within the Conservative Party, The Worm in the Apple explains why Britain voted to leave in 2016. It is by no means the whole story, but they are an important part of it.

Immigration is good for society and here's the data that proves it.

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